New THE DARK TOWER TV Spots Experience the new THE DARK TOWER TV spots! The film, directed by Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair), stars Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Haysbert, Abbey Lee, and José Zúñiga. THE DARK TOWER will be released in theaters on August 4. The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, roams an Old West-like landscape where “the world has moved on” in pursuit of the man in black. Also searching for the fabled Dark Tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world.